Namu's Story

ABSINTHE

It was a pretty alright day in the swamps, the sun was shinning through the thick mess of trees, giving off just enough light to keep things visible. They lived in a swamp though, it wasn't as often that things were all to light around here, but it was peaceful enough. That was a bit odd to say considering how some wolves within the pack were, quite the psychopaths to say the least. Absinthe herself did enjoy lounging about a bit, but today seemed like it would be one to get out, to do something other than lay about in complete boredom. Oh well, she'd perhaps figure something out, but in the mean time she could get out of her cozy little home. Emerging to meet the sun, she stretched her body out, gazing upon all the wolves that walked about. The pups, their mothers and father, elders, and those closer to her very own age. Yeah, a nice day, especially to watch the pups play about.

She quietly padded along the ground, walking around anyone she came close to. A few greetings done amongst herself and them.

NAMU

Quickly he made his way through the thick trees, avoiding each and every hardened branch with ease. Trails of flowers and other such things grew along his walked path, adding more beauty to their land. It was lovely to be a wold of nature, of plants and healing, just something to positive about that. Then again he did really enjoy exploring the lands beyond his own, of which he was on his way to do. Eventually the border had show up, and beyond that a whole new place to explore. The male took once last glance back towards his packs territory, then moved forward.

Keya carefully made her way on the familiar path before her, weaving in and out of the trees, ducking various branches, avoiding stepping on the delicate flowers, she knew every step. It was almost like a memorised dance to her now flowing through her paws guiding her through the woods. She loved this route, why? Because no one dare come this far to the border, meaning no one to disturb her. Sometimes the pack just got too much and she needed to clear her head.

Keya hit the familiar turning leading along the north border to her favourite part of the woods. The trees were less dense here providing her with a clear running track, the midday sun shone through the leafy canopy warming her back the light dancing on her emerald streaks . She paused, bristled her tail and and took her crouched running stance. She took a deep breath in preparation to release her energy.

Suddenly her ears pricked up. Someone was here. They were close, just beyond the right bank of trees, but that would mean someone was on the border. A lost pup who's strayed too far maybe? She silently made her way to the cover of the trees. One of the enemy? Another pack? Keyas heart started to beat rapidly, she crouched forward using a nearby fallen trunk to hide herself. From there she could see it was no enemy, this wolf bore the mark of an Aven. What were they doing? No one left the border, ever. As far as Keya knew she was the only one who came this far to the border. Someone obviously beat her. Where were they going? Intrigued Keya was torn, go tell the alpha about a stray member, or follow the lone wolf out into the world?

The young male looked about his surrounding, pausing momentarily to figure out where exactly he was going. Namu was unsure of what territories lie in any direction, though he knew some where violent and others were not. He certainly did not want to run into any pack that was unfriendly. Though, he also did just want to sit around his own pack, doing nothing all to interesting with his days. With a soft sigh he gained up all his courage and moved on. What direction to go, he didn't even know; yet, with a quick decision he went towards the left. Some reason in his head told him to go off in that direction, perhaps it seemed the most interesting? He wouldn't know till he kept going.

Unknowing to him, there was someone watching from behind. How he could no sense their presence was interesting, but had not matter. He just went upon his way, leaving his trail of flowers and plants along his path.

Kryn

Magma blasted at Kryn from both sides as the Tenneth snapped at him with teeth that blazed with blue flame. Krynn ducked under the lava and brought his spiked armor in an upwards trust into the Teneth's side. The fire-wolf yelped in pain and skittered backwards. Two other Canicus' took their chance to spring up from the lava on either side and into Krynn's armor. Their lava flaked fur burning into the steel plate some. Kryn took one around the neck with his metal capped teeth and bit down, hard.

He shook his head and the wolf's neck snapped. Then he tossed the limp body back into the lava. He growled turning to face the aggressors who'd all congregated to one side of the pathway. He charged at them just as the Tenneth let loose a gout of flame. Kryn took the blast square on and felt his fur starting to burn away, the metal that coated it turned red hot as the skin beneath began to cook.

He jabbed his armor spikes directly into a Canicus who yelped and then fell limp. Kryn then used his full strength and weight to hurl the dead wolf into the Tenneth who then toppled over into the lava. The Tenneth, unable to stay afloat in the melted rock, sank to the bottom. Kryn's eyes flashed as he turned again towards the two lava wolves. One of them stepped forward and tried to swipe at the knight. Kyrn grabbed the wolf's leg in his teeth and the wolf yanked it out, tearing several gashes into it in the process.

Both of the Canicus were shaking in fear. "Please, please don't kill us!" The wounded one said, his blood dripping and hissing on the stone floor.

"Do you surrender?" Kryn said, not changing his stance.

The wolves didn't respond. They just ran away, the wounded one limping and staggering as fast as he could.

Kryn blinked twice and watched them leave. He sighed and shook the molten metal off of his fur. "Very well then."

The brave knight then turned back towards the sweet smell of Adamantine.


Nespral

As the Spirit Wolf approached the border of the forested area he was in, he came much closer to the spirit font he was looking for. Near it was one wolf with light green fur and further behind him, another with white fur seemed to follow. They both looked as if they were travelling straight towards the Spirit Font, but it was odd. There was no way that they could know it was there, right? It was invisible to them, or it should be, just like he should be. Nespral became curious and trotted to catch up along side the green one. He looked to see what the wolf was doing and what he was looking for.


Widget

Widget called out for one of her assistants. "You heard the wolf. Go and help them build some weapons." She watched the assistant turn to leave. "Oh and hey. If I hear that any of my creations didn't work perfectly, I'll know who to blame. I'll invent something special just for you." The assistant just turned away and hurried out the door with the other Boraks.

Then the young wolf watched the two generals argue with muffled excitement. She hoped that they would fight, that would surely be a show to see! But, instead, they just yelled some more and then the male general, Bane, left in a huff. Widget sighed. "Oh well."

Then she realized that the female was talking to her. "Oh? What? A business opportunity?" She looked longingly back towards her lab, she had so many ideas, so many thing to build. Her list just kept growing. "Sure, whatcha got?"

Skye made her way through the labyrinth that was the Aven pack territory. Her pure white coat caught the light, making the glow around her form brighter, almost glittery. Anyone who wasn't part of her pack would assume that she was a trespassing. She had the appearance of her mother, from the Kita pack but her abilities were from the Aven, where her father was from. There was some bitterness from a few pack members- it was almost like they thought she was unstable. There weren't many hybrids hanging around.
Skye paused, a slight wolfing smile curling on her lips when she spotted a beautiful trail of flowers. Namu. She followed it, a light bounce in her step. Her small, light form came in handy as she snuck up on her friend. At the last moment, she pounced on him and used all of her force to flip him onto his back. "Caught you!" She laughed, giving him a playful lick on his nose.
She was significantly smaller than him, and he could very easily knock her back with the swipe of his paw. She took to him very quickly, even as a pup, mainly because of their similar personalities and the fact that he didn't isolate her for being different. "Looking for trouble?" She teased, resting her head on his chest and inhaling his sweet, soothing scent.

NAMU

The young male had eventually stopped his walking and looked back upon his own territory. Should he really be heading out this far into land he didn't know anything about? It would be wise to go back, knowing that many other packs around the land weren't at all the kindest out there. Yet, he was bored, nothing to do but sit around and lounge, nothing interesting happening in the least. Namu sighed deeply to himself before looking away from the forest, away from the trees that grew and wrapped around each other as a border. His tail swayed from side to side, the leaves and vines making slight rustling sounds as she ran across the earth. Before the male could make any decision, he was pounced on from behind, causing him to make a light sound from the force of the other.

He would have struggled, but just the sound of the females voice had helped him figure whom it was. Sky, his dear friend for quite a few years now, was the one that had pounced upon the unsuspecting wolf. "Trouble?" he chuckled softly, wrapping a paw around her shoulder, "no, I wouldn't go going around looking for any of that, I'm not the kind for that. Besides, I'd probably have me butt handed to me anyway, but no, just looking for something to do." The male let out a heavy sigh through his nose.

Skye grinned at her friend as he told her he wasn't looking for trouble, just something to do. She burrowed her snout in the scrubs of his neck affectionately when he rested hid paw on her shoulder. She laid there for a moment, just enjoying being so close to him. Her bright blue eyes scanned the forest, and she glanced at him. "Well, I doubt there's any stray wolves right outside our territory..." She pulled away slightly, to gaze into his deep green eyes excitedly. "Why not? We won't go far, and if we get the slightest scent of another wolf, we'll come home."
She stood up, and smiled at him. "What do you say?" She softly slid her white tail across his snout in a slightly flirty manner, and bounded across the border of their territory lines.

Namu let out a soft sigh as he lay there on his back, the female nuzzled into his chest and neck as he looked up at the sky. It was a pretty blue today, though it was usually rather pretty any day there wasn't any clouds to be seen. "Oh what?" he looked back at her for a moment, "I don't know, I mean, I seems a lot of stray wolves come around this area when injured buuuuut... I suppose we could. Any other wolf scent though, we come back." The young male watched the other stand up, smiling softly at the white tail the ran across his snout. He sneezed right after though.

"Wait up!" he shouted, soon taking after the small white wolf. It wasn't much longer till he stopped within his tracks, having picked up the scent of another. Of course, now if only he could spot the stray wolf that was around he'd feel a bit better about the situation.

"Skye!" Namu called out to her as soon as the guest showed themselves to them. She wasn't really small, yet she wasn't at all that big either. Something about he looks didn't seem right to him, so he instantly flattened his ears against his head. Sure, she said she wasn't there to harm them, but how could they be sure she wasn't going to after they healed their comrade? He looked over to Skye, wanting to see what she wanted to do as well.

Skye stopped dead in her tracks, and quickly moved to his side when she heard him call her name. When she smelled the other wolf, she lowered her head and stepped behind Namu slightly. She perked her ears forward when the female came forward, listening to her curiously. She glanced at Namu, noting his wary expression. She gave him an encouraging nod, with a slight smile. "I would be happy to help. Lead the way."

Perhaps she was just naive, or just knew that there was a wolf in need and had to help. But she felt that even though this wolf may seem pretty threatening in appearance, appearances are what got her parents killed. Skye nudged Namu softly. "I'll heal the wolf, then we can leave. She seems like she really is in need. She's putting herself out there right now- we could just call our pack on her and kill her now. She knows that. Come on." She smiled at him, before starting off towards the other wolf.

"But Skye-.." before he could say any more about the situation, the small white female had already taken off towards the other wolf. It caused Namu to stand there for a minute or two, fidgeted and whimpering softly to himself. Everyone knew very well the Aven pack wasn't one to fight or even cause harm to others. They were neutral, there way they would come kill off some random wolf. He said, and with head held low, he followed after the other two. This felt like such a bad idea, how was it that she was able to talk him into stuff like this in the first place?

Skye galloped after the black wolf, careful to keep close to Namu. She knew that if she was to strayaay from him, he would only become more anxious about the whole thing. The fact that she loved being close to him didn't hurt, either.
When they arrived at the black wolf's destination, she immediately wanted to go to the injured wolf. She paused, and turned to Namu. She gave him an affectionate lick on his cheek, before hurrying off to, what appeared to be, a Tennith wolf. Then again, she did appear to be a Kita. "I'm Skye. I'm going to be healing you. Yes I can heal. I'm a hybrid." She introduced hersel, glancing away at the last bit. Before he could object, she began licking him gently. It wasn't with the same sort of affection she used with Namu- this was more like a mother cleaning her pup.
When she finished, she pulled back and smiled at him kindly. "Are we feeling a bit better?"

NAMU

Namu continued to follow behind the black wolf, still unsure of what the two were even doing following her in the first place. Sure, there was a wounded wolf, but since they were both out of their own territory, it just made him nervous. Having the she-wolf close to him made his feel a little better, though not entirely either.

Once they had finally arrived where the injured wolf was, he quickly stopped quite a few feet away, not wanting to get any closer than he actually needed to. From where he stood he could certainly see there was an injured wolf laying there and he was really injured as well. The Aven groaned lightly to himself, his head lowering as his eyes looked around at the place. He was scanning it with his eyes to make sure there wasn't anyone else around as well. At the feeling of an affectionate lick upon his cheek, he looked up to see sky, giving her a soft smile before she ran off to help the injured wolf. Till she was done, he just sat there quietly.

Ezra

Ezra noticed the intimidating she-wolf returned. Though what she returned with surprised him. Instead of his satchel, she returned with two strangers. Strangers who appeared to be able to hasten his healing. They must be Aven, they weren't too far from the Acacia Woods. It would be easy for them to simply walk into their borders from here. Either she did that, or she found them beyond their borders. Whatever the case Ezra was grateful. The one who introduced herself as Skye, volunteered to aid him. While the other Aven seemed content to supervising. Speaking off, he was surprised to hear she was a hybrid.

Ezra has heard of interpack mingling. While he hasn't really anything against it, he knows some wolves are disturbed by it. Those purist-pedigree types, always so close minded. After she licked his wounds, he began to feel better. The herbs from earlier, mixed with the natural healing abilities of the Aven, began to seep past his wounds. It burrowed itself into his damaged muscles, bones, and tissue. It would take more rest, but for the main part he'll live. He looked towards Skye, "Yes, thank you." He then turned the black she-wolf, "And thank you as well." He spoke.

"I appreciate all that you have done for me." Ezra spoke addressing the entire group. He laid their as he took another breath. His mind wandering back to the scene of the attack. It was difficult to forget. Just how did it go so wrong?


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Meanwhile...

An outpost made from the earth sat in the barren and rocky lands. There a group of Dimitrios plotted with an unknown group of wolves. The very same Dimitrios that attacked Ezra's operation. They sat around a stone table as the, obvious, head of the group spoke, "How much longer til our scouts return?" Asked the Head. "Well sir with the rain, it has washed much of the scent away." "It will be very difficult for them to pick anything up." Spoke a Dimitrios. "Dammit!" "What happened to following him!?" The Head spoke outraged. "Well sir, the Tenneth put up a bigger fight than we thought." "After we caught them and interrogated them, they gave us nothing." Spoke the wolf. The Head growled. "Damn Tenneth!" "They've been on our borders for months now!" Pushing further into our territory!" "We needed headway!" He shouted.

"Calm down Taron, it isn't over." Spoke an uncomfortably smooth voice. "Well Felonious, I will calm once I have Ezra!" He barked. "Hey, hey no need to bark at us." "After all we did tell you about this shindig." Felonious cooed. "Yes and the Dimitrios thank you for stopping their secret meeting, but!" "But, Ezra isn't going to be a problem." Felonious interrupted. "He is lost and alone, probably even injured." Felonious spoke. "He isn't going to get far, you'll find him sooner than you would expect." Felonious spoke reassuringly. "How can you be so sure?" Taron asked. "Well you killed off his friends, attacked him, and left him to deal with that." "I'm sure that will shake up most wolves." "Unless he absolutely doesn't care about his comrades." Felonious spoke. "Also you sent scouts in all directions, I'm sure he will be yours soon enough." Felonious spoke with a devious smirk.